CSR summit on February 25

Islamabad : The 13th Annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Summit and Awards-2021 will be held here at a hotel on February 25. Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar will be the chief guest at ceremony.

The National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) organises the event every year to thoroughly discuss the issues related to corporate philanthropy in the country. The forum also discusses the options to combine the CSR resources to help out the deprived masses and leading charitable causes in the country in the best possible manner.

The event is also the annual occasion to properly eulogise excellent work being done by the public and private sector entities to uplift socio-economic status of the underprivileged masses in the country.

The 13th Annual CSR Summit expectedly will be inaugurated by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation & Social Protection Dr Sania Nishtar. The dignitaries will confer 110 awards on representatives of 65 companies for showing excellence in different avenues of the CSR work.

Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Founder of Akhuwat Foundation Dr Amjad Saqib, will be the distinguished speakers of the event and will also chair different sessions of the event.

Other important speakers of the event include High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Pakistan Vice Admiral Wijewickrama, Chairman NEPRA Tauseef Farooqui, Dr. Shafqat Munir Ahmed of SPDI, Fazal Jilani of Air Sial, M Zakir Ali of Inverex Solar Energy and Naeem Qureshi of NFEH.